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For instance, OR2AT4 activation prolongs anagen ex\u00a0vivo and reduces telogen effluvium in\u00a0vivo. We here targeted a further OR, OR2A4\/7, and investigated whether its stimulation unfolds similar properties in human hair follicles (HFs). In fresh frozen scalp skin,\n                    <jats:italic>OR2A4\/7<\/jats:italic>\n                    mRNA was detected by in\u00a0situ hybridization throughout the HF epithelium, while OR2A4\/7 protein expression was restricted to the HF infundibulum. However, organ culture induced OR2A4\/7 protein expression in the bulbar outer root sheath (ORS), hair matrix (HM), and dermal papilla (DP). A similar OR2A4\/7 expression pattern was detected in affected HFs from male and female pattern hair loss patients. HF treatment ex\u00a0vivo with cyclohexyl salicylate (CHS), a cosmetically applicable OR2A4\/7 agonist, delayed catagen development and increased follicular CD34 and CD71 mRNA expression. In line, the percentages of the CD34+ epithelial HF stem cell immediate progeny and of the CD71+ transit amplifying cells, postulated to derive from CD34+ cells, was significantly increased by CHS. Thus, stimulation of OR2A4\/7 with CHS promotes hair growth and expands epithelial HF stem cell progeny. 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